Residuum health of individuals suffering from limb absence: Opportunities and challenges to design the next-generation diagnosis devices

Authors

Laurent Frossard¹ , Christian Langton¹ , Nataliya Perevoshchikova¹ , Stefanie Feih¹ , Ross Powrie² , Robert Ware³ , David Lloyd¹

1. Griffith Centre of Biomedical and Rehabilitation Engineering (GCORE), Griffith University / Menzies
2. Custom Prosthetics, Mudgeeraba, Australia
3. ) Griffith Centre of Biomedical and Rehabilitation Engineering (GCORE), Griffith University / Menzie

Conference / event

19th World Congress of the International Society for Prosthetics and Orthotics, April 2023 (Guadalajara, Mexico)

Poster summary

Individuals suffering from limb absence frequently experience neurological phantom and residuum pain, as well as neuromusculoskeletal disfunctions susceptible to compromise their residuum health. Care providers have limited ways to diagnose these disfunctions, particularly when using the prosthesis during daily living. There is a need for wearable and non-invasive diagnostic devices that can assist care providers to better assess and maintain residuum health by establishing the pathophysiological cause-and-effect relationship between prosthetic care interventions and residuum neuromusculoskeletal dysfunctions. This study outlines opportunities and challenges to the development of the next generation of diagnostic devices. The specific objectives were to inform the identification, invention, and implementation phases of the Biodesign innovation process specific to diagnostic devices.

Keywords

Bioncis, Bone-anchored prosthesis, Amputation, Prosthetics, Artificial limbs, Osseointegration

Research areas

Bioengineering, Medical Imaging

References

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5. Frossard, L., et al., Next-generation devices to diagnose residuum health of individuals suffering from limb loss: A narrative review of trends, opportunities, and challenges. Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, 2023. In Press. DOI: 10.1016/j.jsams.2023.02.004.

Funding

1. 2019 US DoD RESTORE Award (No. W81XWH2110215-DM190659)
2. 2021 Bionics Queensland Challenge Major Prize – Mobility (No. N/A)
3. 2021 ANMS-ISPO Research Grant (No. N/A)

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Additional information

Competing interests

No competing interests were disclosed.

Data availability statement

The datasets generated during and / or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

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Copyright © 2023 Frossard et al. This is an open access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.